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On the wild side!

Listen to over 600 recordings of wildlife from around the UK. Captured by three British wildlife enthusiasts from the 1960s to the 1990s, most are published here for the first time.

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Due to copyright restrictions the recordings featured here are only freely available as streaming audio files. They are not available to download. If you wish to obtain a copy of any recording featured here, please send an email to sound-archive@bl.uk to request further information.

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British Wildlife Recordings

Grey herons at Shearwater

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Bittern at Hinkling Broad

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Marsh warbler near Pershore

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Red-throated divers, Loch Gowan

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Manx shearwaters, Lundy Island

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Richard Ranft
Curator, Sound Archive